You might be wondering what's been happening with MySQL performance since Sun arrived on the scene. The good news is that we haven't been idle. There's been general recognition that MySQL could benefit from some performance and scalability enhancements, and Sun assembled a cross-organizational team immediately after the acquisition to get started on it. We've enjoyed excellent cooperation between the engineers from both organizations.

This kind of effort is not new for Sun - we've been working with proprietary database companies on performance for years, with source code for each of the major databases on site to help the process. In this case, the fact that the MySQL engineers are working for the same company certainly simplifies a lot of things.

If you'd like to get some insight into what's been happening, a video has just …

You might be wondering what's been happening with MySQL performance since Sun arrived on the scene. The good news is that we haven't been idle. There's been general recognition that MySQL could benefit from some performance and scalability enhancements, and Sun assembled a cross-organizational team immediately after the acquisition to get started on it. We've enjoyed excellent cooperation between the engineers from both organizations.

This kind of effort is not new for Sun - we've been working with proprietary database companies on performance for years, with source code for each of the major databases on site to help the process. In this case, the fact that the MySQL engineers are working for the same company certainly simplifies a lot of things.

If you'd like to get some insight into what's been happening, a video has just …

Did you see the press release today, called “Sun MySQL Server Solution“?

What it means is that we start seeing the fruits of what we’ve been talking about all along since the acquisition, such as when launching MySQL this week in Argentina and in Uruguay:

• That Sun remains committed to MySQL’s cross-platform presence, doing at least as much as before the acquisition on any individual platform or for any individual stack.

• That the acquisition of MySQL through …

Uruguay is the Switzerland of South America, in many ways: when it comes to bank secrets, to the size of the country, and to the relative cleanliness compared to neighbouring countries. Uruguay has a similar accent to that of Buenos Aires, and a highly developed economy with demanding database users.

Like yesterday in Argentina, I could today be part of the MySQL launch in Uruguay. Following our script from Argentina (meet press, present to customers, meet individual customers), the difference in Uruguay is that we mostly work through partners.

The most prominent Sun partner in Uruguay is Arnaldo C. Castro S.A. They hosted our customer event in hotel Cala di Volpe (Giuseppe told me this Italian name means “Bay of Foxes”, and quite like Argentina, Uruguay has plenty of Italian immigrants). I met with plenty of representatives for …

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This is a project that I have been working on that I have just uploaded to launchpad. It is not directly related to my work on the BLOB streaming engine for MySQL but it does contain code and ideas that I hope to work into it. The project name on launchpad is 's3daemon'.
The Amazon S3 file transfer daemon is a daemon process that runs in the background and monitors folders. When it finds a file in one of the folders that matches a specific pattern it transfers that file to S3 storage and then removes the local copy. The folders monitored and the patterns searched for are controlled by a configuration file.
Included with the daemon is an apache module that handles requests for files in the folders monitored by the daemon. If a request comes in for a file and the file cannot be found locally the caller is sent a redirect to get the file directly from the S3 server.  The redirect contains a signature created by the module using a …

Hey all, a quick and short note that I will be spending much of December near and around Quito, Ecuador. If there are any MySQL or MySQL-related community, Open Source community, developers or partners that would like to get together, please let me know. My spanish collation is problematic ;) (currently non-existent) but would still love to meet you.

Drop me a note via this blog!

Señoras y señores, I am happy to have been part of the MySQL launch in Argentina yesterday. Visiting Argentina has been a great opportunity to meet with the MySQL users and not-yet-users in a country with 30 degrees Celsius, with colourful houses in La Boca, with an omnipresent Diego Maradona, and only minor challenges in the form of payment methods when using local transport.

On Monday evening, I visited the Universidad Nacional De La Matanza. Together …

The rise of the "Open Source Software Stack" reached another milestone today.  

Sun released a SPECjAppServer2004 performance result using top-to-bottom Open Source Software stack components:  OpenSolaris/MySQL/Glassfish.   At 1197.10 JOPS, the performance is highly respectable - not setting any land speed records, but it is in the ball park with other results using the same class of hardware.   The difference (of course) is in the price/performance.

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It is widely acknowledged that Barack Obama put together the best minds and team together to run his campaign. One of the proof points is that his website www.barackobama.com was driven by MySQL! 

From Jonathan's blog:
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/

" On behalf of Sun Microsystems, I would like to offer my sincerest congratulations to President elect Barack Obama. What an extraordinary accomplishment.

I would also like to extend my congratulations to his web team for having chosen MySQL as the platform behind their election web site, BarackObama.com. "